Flight data recorder of crashed Germanwings A320 found

[UPDATE: APRIL 3] A bit more than one week after the crash on Tuesday, March 24 of a Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps, investigation teams found and secured the flight data recorder (FDR), according to the German news agency dpa (Deutsche Presse Argentur) and French prosecutor Brice Robin.
The French investigation team confirmed after a first check of the FDR from the crashed Germanwings A320 that the first officer started the descent into terrain.
In a press conference March 26, ...

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